Thursday, December 18, 2014

For this spread in my 48 weeks journal I drew a bird with inspiration from Googled images of starlings. They have such beautiful highlight marks on their feathers. I chose to make my bird blue instead of black like a starling to contrast with the yellow and orange splatters in the background.

Sunday, December 14, 2014

This is my project for the 17th CC3 Challenge this time around sponsored by Inspiration Emporium. The page used in Tim's book is page 60 - "woodlands and tinsel twine". I made a faux altered book structure - you know, the one in which no actual books were harmed ; - )

I used old 7Gypsies book boards from my stash and created a deep niche. Then I cut a door in the front and when you open it.........

.....you can see my scene of a little girl decorating her Christmas tree.

This picture is to try to show you the depth of the book/box.

And finally, one last close-up:

I've done these structures on my blog before; if you're interested there's a French themed one HERE and a steampunk version HERE. I even have a tutorial for the structure HERE and in the November 2013 Craft Stamper magazine.

Friday, December 12, 2014

This page is inspired by Tam Laporte'sLifeBook 2014 lesson where you created a busy background and then doodled on top. I created a portrait on top of my background using a stabilo pencil. I continue to love the shadowing you get just by adding water to the pencil lines - the stabilo really is a magic pencil!

Thursday, December 11, 2014

Here's another 48 weeks journal page with flowers that are finger-painted to achieve a cool textural look and then more raised texture is added with modeling paste through a script stencil. I also like the subtle coloring of the background achieved by painting with a color and white just slightly mixed together - it adds so much more depth than just using one color.

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

This week's Documented Life Project challenge was black and white and since I was in a face mood again, I drew one using a white Conte crayon and a white charcoal pencil onto a black gessoed page. I liked the negative effect.

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

This time the challenge for the Documented Life Project was to add a face. I did this face right after classes with Dina Wakley so I used a stabilo pencil activated with water over a messy, painted Dina-style background. Trying to work more with three-quarter views as I find them more interesting.